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“PREVENT ALL SORING TACTICS ACT OF 2021” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the in the House section section on pages H8490-H8491 on Nov. 14.
The Department is primarily focused on food nutrition, with assistance programs making up 80 percent of its budget. Downsizing the Federal Government, a project aimed at lowering taxes and boosting federal efficiency, said the Department implements too many regulations and restrictions and impedes the economy.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
PREVENT ALL SORING TACTICS ACT OF 2021
The SPEAKER. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 5441) to amend the Horse Protection Act to designate additional unlawful acts under the Act, strengthen penalties for violations of the Act, improve Department of Agriculture enforcement of the Act, and for other purposes, as amended, on which the yeas and nays were ordered.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Veasey). The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 304, nays 111, not voting 17, as follows:
YEAS--304
Adams Aguilar Allred Amodei Arrington Auchincloss Axne Bacon Balderson Banks Barragan Bass Beatty Bera Beyer Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bost Bourdeaux Bowman Boyle, Brendan F. Brown (MD) Brown (OH) Brownley Buchanan Buck Budd Burchett Bush Bustos Butterfield Calvert Carbajal Cardenas Carey Carson Carter (GA) Carter (LA) Cartwright Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chabot Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Cole Connolly Conway Cooper Correa Courtney Craig Crawford Crow Cuellar Curtis Davids (KS) Davis, Danny K. Dean DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DelBene DeSaulnier Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Doyle, Michael F. Duncan Ellzey Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Estes Evans Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fletcher Flores Foster Frankel, Lois Franklin, C. Scott Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Gallego Garamendi Garbarino Garcia (CA) Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Gimenez Golden Gomez Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez, Vicente Gottheimer Granger Green, Al (TX) Griffith Harder (CA) Hayes Higgins (NY) Hill Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Hudson Huffman Issa Jackson Lee Jacobs (CA) Jacobs (NY) Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (TX) Jones Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Kahele Kaptur Katko Keating Keller Kelly (IL) Kelly (PA) Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim (CA) Kim (NJ) Kind Kirkpatrick Krishnamoorthi Kuster LaHood Lamb Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latta LaTurner Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Leger Fernandez Levin (CA) Levin (MI) Lieu Lofgren Lowenthal Luetkemeyer Luria Lynch Mace Malinowski Malliotakis Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Mann Manning Mast McBath McCaul McClain McCollum McEachin McGovern McHenry McNerney Meeks Meijer Meng Meuser Mfume Moolenaar Moore (UT) Moore (WI) Morelle
Moulton Mrvan Murphy (FL) Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Newman Norcross O'Halleran Obernolte Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Peltola Perlmutter Peters Phillips Pingree Pocan Porter Posey Pressley Price (NC) Quigley Raskin Reschenthaler Rice (NY) Rice (SC) Rodgers (WA) Rogers (AL) Ross Roybal-Allard Ruiz Ruppersberger Rush Rutherford Ryan (NY) Ryan (OH) Salazar Sanchez Sarbanes Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrader Schrier Schweikert Scott (VA) Scott, David Sempolinski Sewell Sherman Sherrill Sires Slotkin Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Smucker Soto Spanberger Speier Stansbury Stanton Stauber Steel Stefanik Steil Stevens Strickland Suozzi Swalwell Takano Tenney Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Titus Tlaib Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Trone Turner Underwood Upton Valadao Van Drew Vargas Veasey Velazquez Wagner Walberg Waltz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Welch Wexton Wild Williams (GA) Williams (TX) Wilson (FL) Wittman Yakym Zeldin
NAYS--111
Aderholt Allen Armstrong Babin Baird Barr Bentz Bergman Bice (OK) Biggs Boebert Brady Brooks Burgess Cammack Carl Carter (TX) Cawthorn Cline Cloud Clyde Comer Crenshaw Davidson DesJarlais Donalds Dunn Emmer Fallon Feenstra Ferguson Finstad Fischbach Fleischmann Flood Foxx Gibbs Gohmert Good (VA) Gooden (TX) Gosar Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Greene (GA) Guest Guthrie Harris Harshbarger Hartzler Hern Herrell Hice (GA) Higgins (LA) Hinson Hollingsworth Huizenga Jackson Johnson (LA) Jordan Kelly (MS) Kustoff LaMalfa Lamborn Lesko Letlow Long Loudermilk Lucas Massie McCarthy McClintock Miller (IL) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Mooney Moore (AL) Mullin Murphy (NC) Nehls Norman Owens Palazzo Palmer Pence Perry Pfluger Rogers (KY) Rose Rosendale Rouzer Roy Scalise Scott, Austin Sessions Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Spartz Steube Stewart Taylor Tiffany Timmons Van Duyne Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Wilson (SC) Womack
NOT VOTING--17
Bishop (NC) Bucshon Cheney Costa Davis, Rodney Demings Gonzalez (OH) Grijalva Grothman Herrera Beutler Himes Johnson (SD) Kinzinger Matsui McKinley Newhouse Yarmuth
{time} 1913
Messrs. OWENS, LONG, and JOHNSON of Louisiana changed their vote from
``yea'' to ``nay.''
So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and the bill, as amended, was passed.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
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